I am sure we have all seen a snow globe,
image esty.com, perhaps the most famous, the one used in the film Citizen Kane, but where do they come from? apparently Erwin Perzy, came up with the idea by accident in 1900, Mr Perzy I, a surgical instruments mechanic, accidentally
created the first snow globe in 1900 as a result of an experiment to try to improve
the brightness of the newly invented electric light bulb, he was inspired by the shoemakers of the time, who to get
more light from a candle mounted a glass globe filled with water in front of
the flame, this gave them a light spot the size of a hand, his grandson picks up the story: "And one day he found
a white powder, semolina, used for baby food. And he poured it into the glass
globe, and it got soaked by the water and floated very slowly to the base of
the globe. This effect reminded him of snowfall, and this was the very first, the basic idea for
inventing a snow globe." mass production started in Vienna in 1905, and 108 years
later, the company, Original Vienna Snow Globes, is still going strong, as an aside if you want to know why the company received an order from Mitsubishi, “This was a
half-year’s production order!” Perzy III remembers, and read the full fascinating story of snow globes, have a look here,
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